About CIERA

News and Announcements

February, 2012:
"Picturing and Observing the Night Sky" - Block Exhibition and Dearborn Observation

January, 2012:
Tsing Wai Wong wins a CIC - Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship!

January, 2012:
Kyle Kremer wins the Churchill Scholarship for 2012-13!

January, 2012:
Jill Lynette Hanna Prince, former Undergraduate Research Assistant for Prof. Giles Novak, won the 2010 Women in Aerospace Achievement Award

December, 2011:
Carl Rodriguez gave a public talk at Purdue University North Central in Westville, Indiana: "Ripples in the Universe: Catching Gravitational Waves with LIGO"

Welcome to Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics!

CIERA's mission is to promote research and education through the support of postdoctoral fellows developing independent research programs, advanced graduate and undergraduate research, seminar series, a long-term visitors program, and to persue new astrophysics research directions. Special emphasis is given to interdisciplinary connections with planetary science, computer science, applied math, chemistry, biology, electrical engineering, and materials science.

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